Theresa May to face leadership challenge

[meridian]

200-117, hardly a stunning victory.

It was a bit more than 52%, sounds like a resounding victory and the 117 need to step back and let the 200 get on with it.

[scooterscot]

sie ist noch da - shade

[Old Greg]

200-117, hardly a stunning victory.

Perfect really. Bad enough that she is wounded but not so bad she will resign. More entertainment to come.

[jamesbrown]

It was a bit more than 52%, sounds like a resounding victory and the 117 need to step back and let the 200 get on with it.

Sounds like a resounding victory to someone that doesn't really understand the internal party politics of the Tory party.

Worst possible result in many ways. Damaged, but not fatally.

It's an irrelevance though. It doesn't change the Parliamentary arithmetic.

[jamesbrown]

Perfect really. Bad enough that she is wounded but not so bad she will resign. More entertainment to come.

Yes, excellent summary.

[minestrone]

If I was here I would take that as a mandate.

[sasguru]

I'm starting to wonder whether Theresa May isn't the craftiest politician ever, and has been angling and scheming for a no deal Brexit right from the start, incredible as it sounds.

If you think about it, she triggered Article 50 as soon as possible, thus starting the leaving clock, and has resisted attempts to extend the deadline or have a second referendum.

Since then she has come up with a laughably inadequate deal that any sane person must have known would never be acceptable to Leavers or even most Remainers, and certainly not the DUP, on whose support the Tories rely.

Then she postponed the vote on the deal until barely a month before we're due to leave anyway.

So if she survives tonight's confidence vote, all she has to do is muddle through or somehow frustrate or delay Parliament's "meaningful vote" in January, and we're practically home and dry!

No Deal here we come!

When you fell out of the stupid tree, you really did hit all the branches on the way down, didn't you?

[meridian]

Sounds like a resounding victory to someone that doesn't really understand the internal party politics of the Tory party.

Worst possible result in many ways. Damaged, but not fatally.

It's an irrelevance though. It doesn't change the Parliamentary arithmetic.

The 117 just need to believe more and get behind their party, instead of moaning. Will of the MPs.

[minestrone]

Has Chris Grayling been on the fags and vodka?

[scooterscot]

Come on Tory Brexiteers. You had a leadership vote in 2016 for Theresa May. You lost. Get over it. Respect the will of the Tory party, etc.

Oh wait you're allowed a second vote?